Ever Considered A North Slope Oil Drilling Job?

Do You Have What It Takes For A North Slope Oil Job?

Got what it takes to work in the Alaska North slope oil industry? If you have ever watched shows like "The Deadliest Catch" and "Black Gold", try to picture the two combined. While drilling rigs in Alaska are usually more high tech and professional than those in the oil exploration reality show and the work slightly less dangerous than crab fishing, you can get the picture that it is not a walk in the park.

Oil exploration in Alaska is a controversial subject but we do get a significant amount of our domestically produced oil from Alaska. New technology, such as horizontal drilling, to get more oil out of old fields that were thought to be depleted and new areas, not including the ANWR wildlife refuge, are being explored.

The North Slope is still a hotbed for oil and gas exploration. Here drilling a well is not easy. Strict environmental regulations must be followed and often roads must be built of ice in the dead of winter to get access to an area. Other areas require building artificial islands or ice structures to set the drilling rig on.

All of this means a lot of work and a lot of jobs. There is every kind of job you can imagine related to North Slope oil exploration. There are the people that build the roads, move the rigs, set up living quarters, cook food, fly support aircraft including helicopters, and of course the hard working roughnecks that do all of the heavy work on the rigs.

Entry level jobs can be found though, such as that of a roustabout. Roustabouts do manual labor and odd jobs on a rig. They may do just about any kind of oilfield job. From this kind of job you might be able to move up the ladder to the job of an oilfield roughneck.

Roughnecks do dangerous, hard work and not everybody is able to do this kind of labor, especially in the extreme conditions of the North Slope. Here any job is harder. On the plus side the food is usually very good on a modern drilling rig location and the pay is much more than in the lower 48 states.

If you think you have what it takes, look at sites like Alaskaoilfieldjobs for openings and submit your resume. If you are in good physical shape, hard working and adventureous, a North Slope job just might be for you.